This document provides an introduction to collaborative design workshops and sketching. The workshops aim to explore multiple design options through sketching, getting input from all participants to find the best solution. Sketching is recommended over unnecessary detail to effectively communicate interface designs, information, and flow. Participants are encouraged to practice sketching lines, rectangles, and templates to prepare for workshops focusing on sketching, presenting, and critiquing designs through multiple iterations.

1. Collaborative design workshop
Introduction and how to sketch

2. Background

3. Why?
• Challenge of doing good design work
• Explore as many options as possible
• Come up with solid design solutions

4. We need a tool that…
• Avoids unnecessary detail
• Reveals the best of multiple solutions
• Gets everyone's input and by in

5. Collaborative design sessions…
Sketch > Present > Critique
(Iterate)

6. Sketching

7. Sketchboard

8. Come up with the best solution

9. Introduction to sketching

10. Interaction design sketching
How your idea works on the page
and then communicate that to
other people

11. Interaction design sketching
• Information
• Interface structure
• Flow

12. Sketching
• It’s not about “bad” or “good”
• “Can you see it?”
• “Can you understand it”

13. Tools

14. Tools for sketching
• Markers
• Templates (6up and 1up)

16. Rules of thumb
Use markers not pencils
If you mess up keep going

17. Warm up exercises

18. Drawing lines
1. Use the small point of your marker
2. Draw a series of horizontal lines in
one box
3. Draw vertical lines in the next box
Try drawing from your shoulder
Try drawing at different speeds
See what works for you

19. Lines and rectangles experiment
1. Turn your page over
2. Fill the page with overlapping
rectangles at least 10
3. Choose one rectangle and
highlight it yellow
4. Use a fat sharpie and outline 3
rectangles
5. Shade 3 rectangles with a grey
marker

20. Homework

21. Your homework
• Practice your sketching
• Send me an email of a product that you
think that the redeveloped LA search
should be like and why